links not working when deploying Laravel app to Heroku

Question

I was given a laravel project I need to get up and running. I am new to laravel, but after allot of work, I believe I got everything configured properly and I deployed the project to heroku.

When I do artisan serve on my guest machine in my laravel project and go to the given url everything works fine all the links works. But I deploy it to heroku and my index page shows but none of the links work. I get:

Not Found The requested URL /register was not found on this server.

It seems that running php artisan serve kinda activates the links, but how do I make that happen on heroku???

I should note the app is using blade.php files

What am I missing???

This is in the /resources/views

My _htaccess inside my public folder is as follows

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    <IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
        Options -MultiViews
    </IfModule>

    RewriteEngine On

    # Redirect Trailing Slashes If Not A Folder...
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]

    # Handle Front Controller...
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]

    # Handle Authorization Header
    RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} .
    RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
</IfModule>

I tried adding RewriteBase / doesnt help. I also tried changing htaccess to:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]

And my Procfile has:

web: vendor/bin/heroku-php-apache2 public/

Thanks

Ryan Dionne Ryan Dionne · Accepted Answer · 2018-11-27T07:52:57

Well I resolved my issue, it seems that I had some lowercase letters in my web.routes path that should have been Capital letters. Local host dosen't seem to mind if the words are uppercase or not, but linux does seem to mind.... Not sure if it will help, but i searched a long ass time for something so silly...

links not working when deploying Laravel app to Heroku

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